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Wexner Center's Black Mountain show explores a big bang that changed art forever (photos, video)
Edit Cleveland 11 Oct 2016
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Black Mountain College was an artistic big bang that changed the world ... Buckminster Fuller. Distinguished alumni ... Organized by Helen Molesworth, chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the show surveys more than 200 works by 90 artists including de Kooning, Rauschenberg, the Alberses, Jacob Lawrence, Ilya Bolotowsky, Amedee Ozenfant and Jack Tworkov ... Pivotal contributions ... Review. What's up....
Fighting disease with design: Light, Air and Openness
Edit Treehugger 26 Sep 2016
Part of a series looking at how the lack of antibiotics affected architecture before, and how it might again. An earlier post in this series, Antibiotic resistance will change the way we live, described how antibiotic resistance was becoming a problem, and how we might soon actually be living without them once again ... So essentially they and the architects of the time fought disease with design ... © Maison Ozenfant/ Le Corbusier ... ....
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Edit Huffington Post 04 Nov 2015
Berenice Abbott photo of Peggy Guggenheim ... a new film biography of Peggy Guggenheim. Art Addict ... "I think I surprised them," she writes, modestly ... 1916; Francis Picabia, Very Rare Picture on Earth, 1915; Albert Gleizes, Woman with Animals (Madame Raymond Duchamp-Villon), 1914 (partially visible behind sculptures); Am�d�e Ozenfant, Guitar and Bottles, 1920; Jean H�lion, Equilibrium, 1933-34, all in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice....
Le Corbusier you ought to know
Edit The Times of India 26 Aug 2015
Dr S S Bhatti, former principal of Chandigarh College of Architecture. Although Le Corbusier is a household name in the City Beautiful, not many Chandigarhians and Indians know the magnificence and magnitude of his real genius that made him the 20th-century's greatest architect ... Le Corbusier regularly painted, on the persuasion of his painter friend Amedee Ozenfant, to explore, and put, new architectural concepts into place ... ....
As Hong Kong hosts Le Corbusier retrospective, new books stir up fascism row
Edit South China Morning Post 12 May 2015
In fact, de Jarcy describes the architect as an "outright fascist" ... He says that at one stage Le Corbusier maintained an office for 18 months under the Vichy government ... After the war ended, Le Corbusier returned to Paris (he later became a French citizen) and met his intellectual collaborator, Amédée Ozenfant; together they formed the Purist movement that rejected the cubism tradition as "irrational" and "romantic" ... "This is not new....
Leonora Carrington: wild at heart
Edit The Guardian 28 Jan 2015
She ran off with Max Ernst, drank with the surrealists – and kept her tea under lock and key. Charlotte Higgins on the dazzling life and art of Leonora Carrington. Evening Conference, 1949. Photograph. Estate of Leonora Carrington. Charlotte Higgins. Wednesday 28 January 2015 08.00 GMT ... The consistent element was her art ... Photograph ... In the teeth of family opposition she studied art, enrolling in Amedée Ozenfant’s academy in London ... ....
An architect by choice...
Edit Deccan Herald 13 Dec 2014
It all began in the Swiss Jura Mountains in 1887. Le Corbusier, the world-renowned architect and city planner, was born as Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, on October 6, 1887 to Édouard Jeanneret and Madame Jeannerct-Perrct, in a small village of La Chaux-de-Fonds ... At the age of 30, Jeanneret met painter and designer Amedee Ozenfant in Paris, who introduced to him sophisticated contemporary art ... His chairs being the most popular of the lot....
Rick Brettell’s picks: Six pieces to see in Meadows, Kimbell collections
Edit The Dallas Morning News 27 Jun 2014
Art critic Rick Brettell details his top three selections from two major art exhibitions opening next spring. opening next spring ... Bass” at the Kimbell Art Museum next March. HOUSE OF ALBA, MEADOWS MUSEUM ... 1550-1555 ... The large and brilliant still-life, one of the most significant of the mid-1920s, is Picasso’s response to the hard-edged compositions and high-keyed color of his colleagues Léger and Ozenfant. Corrections and Clarifications....
Russian Art Week (Sotheby's Inc)
Edit noodls 21 May 2014
(Source. Sotheby's Inc). Press Release London . +44 (0)20 7293 6000 .Mitzi Mina . Mitzi.Mina@sothebys.com. Rosamund Chester .Rosamund.Chester@sothebys.com. For Immediate Release. SOTHEBY'S RUSSIAN ART WEEK PRESENTS The First Major Group of Soviet Artworks to Appear at Auction ... est ... est ... est ... Still Life with Bottles and Glasses is a beautiful example of Exter's work of the mid 1920s, when she was influenced by Fernand Léger and Amédée Ozenfant....
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